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Send public ip by mail

Python 3.6.5 program tips

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If you have a server at home that you want to access, and you have a broadband connection to the internet with a random ip address from your ISP, then you need to know todays ip. From internet there are diffrent ways to solve this.
Buy a program from https://www.gearboxcomputers.com/products/ip-watcher/

Write your own program in python -- here an example
Install python 365 from https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-365/
Install some development plattform like http://ninja-ide.org/downloads/
To get the public ip create this lines in your python script

import requests
page = requests.get('http://botliam.com/1.php')
ip = page.text

# test the value of variable ip by show it on terminal
print (ip)

Test and ensure above file work.

Then to send a mail with your ISP just a code like below (this example is for TELENOR):

# use smtplib functions
import smtplib
server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL('smtp.bredband.net', 465)
# some ISP does not use tls instead you should use SMTP_SSL as python command
# server.starttls()
server.login("your email address", "your password")
# set the ip number as the message text
msg = "This is your public ip" + ip + " have a good day"
server.sendmail("your email adress", "the email address to send to", msg )
server.quit()

You need to change values above to match your login to your ISP mail server

Save both above codes in a python file called mypublicip.py in a folder like c:\code
Download and install the program that create a exe of a python script https://medium.com/dreamcatcher-its-blog/making-an-stand-alone-executable-from-a-python-script-using-pyinstaller-d1df9170e263
pip install pyinstaller

Then go to a command prompt on your server, and move to the folder where you have python installed.
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32
Enter the below command to compile the File

pyinstaller.exe --onefile "c:\code\mypublicip.py"

After the file is created, it can be found in folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\dist
Copy the mypublicip.exe file to another computer and test that it works.

Now you can use the windows schedule to make it run every day if you want.

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More information on how to do it at http://naelshiab.com/tutorial-send-email-python/

import smtplib

server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
server.starttls()
server.login("YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS", "YOUR PASSWORD")

msg = "YOUR MESSAGE!"
server.sendmail("YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS", "THE EMAIL ADDRESS TO SEND TO", msg)
server.quit()

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More info on how to get IP
This website http;//botliam.com/1.php outputs your ip so you only need these 3 lines to get your ip.

import requests
page = requests.get('http://botliam.com/1.php')
ip = page.text

what its doing is:

opens my webpage and calls it "page"
sets "ip" to the contents of the "page"

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24508730/finding-network-external-ip-addresses-using-python?noredirect=1&lq=1

Search google for more python examples.